Real encoder 9 gui

[Latexxx]

Download real media encoder 9 preview gui from http://www.nic.fi/~lhahne/rm9/

[Head Hunter]

Once I press start, nothing happens, did I do something wrong?

[atracus]

great man,
I'll try and let u know!

A nice addon: to be able to choose amongst custom -ad files, I've produced a couple very-custom dedicated filez and I'd like 2 be able to select them in the pulldown menues....

thanks!

bye

[atx]

[31 Flavas]

Originally posted by Head Hunter
Once I press start, nothing happens, did I do something wrong?

you probably do not have RP9 defined in your windows PATH. Un-install and reinstall and say YES when it asks if you want to set a path variable.

-flavas

[Latexxx]

Originally posted by atracus
great man,
I'll try and let u know!

A nice addon: to be able to choose amongst custom -ad files, I've produced a couple very-custom dedicated filez and I'd like 2 be able to select them in the pulldown menues....

thanks!

bye

[atx]

It is possible to write profiles name directly to field.

[slavickas]

Originally posted by Latexxx


It is possible to write profiles name directly to field.

maybe it is possible to get sources? if not maybe you can add something like this:

if DirectoryExists('c:\program files\real\RealSystem Producer Preview\audiences')
then FileListBox1.Directory:='c:\program files\real\RealSystem Producer Preview\audiences';
ComboBox1.Items:= FileListBox1.Items;

it would be more easier, bacause i and many(? ;) others probably use only custom audiences

[nordloewe]

Latexxx,

i have a question for you. please don't get me wrong. ;) i noticed that the output on the console window doesn't show the commands passed by the GUI. so how can we rest assure that the GUI really passed all options we chose??? i mean, if the GUI had a bug, we would never discover.... can this be implemented with no hassle???

another thing.... since i'm not a programmer, i really don't know the feasibility/complexity of what i'm gonna suggest now, so please forgive me for any incoherence. is it possible to integrate a sort of Audience Creation Utility to the present Encoder GUI? like slavickas stated, many people (me included) use their own customized audiences. and they *probably* find themselves trying different settings quite often, which is a pain in the neck cause we have to keep opening the audiences and editing them prior to encoding the videos.

my idea is to add one new section to the GUI dialogue-box where we can create a brand-new audience with all relevant strings

avgBitrate
maxBitrate

encodingType
quality
maxStartupLatency
maxFrameRate
maxKeyFrameInterval

codecName
codecFlavor

and, upon pressing the START button, the audience just created inside the GUI, would be also created (maybe temporarily) inside the RP9's audiences directory to be used by RP9 when it receive (from the GUI) the encoding parameters for that particular encoding session. this way, we could do all the "dirty" job inside the GUI, making it the ultimate tool for RV9 creation! what you think? does anyone here believe it would be a great feature for the GUI? any suggestions/comments/critiques??? sorry if it sounded confusing.... i can rephrase the whole post if necessary.

again, i'm not a programmer....maybe a dreamer, but not a programmer.

[Latexxx]

I'll see what I can do.

[Latexxx]

New version released. Includes profile names reading and showing command line parameters.

Grab a copy from http://less.filetap.com/rm9/

[Doom9]

pressing the setup button in the new build returns an access violation at address 00442C1A in module rm9_gui.exe. Read of address 00000C20.

[atracus]

hmmm... . same for me - all the rest is delicious...!

hugs

[atx]

[Latexxx]

Audiences directory setting were in the setup windows, then I moved it to main form and removed the setup form and I just forgot the button there. There is a new version which fixes this and does also some minor adjustements like editing parameters in parameters windows and then executing them.
Grab it from http://less.filetap.com/rm9/

[atracus]

Hmmm.... better and better, just a bug and a couple of requests:

. (lifting) the label should phrase "Black", not "Balck level" :)
. (annoying request, #1 of 999) why not include (low prio.) the "cropping" options as well (-cr), someone might find it useful as an alternative to avisynth, at least as long as we've not spoofed it to be unreliable/consistently worsening our quality...
. (annoying request, #2 of 999) why not keep the encoder window open at the end of encoding (as an option?), in order to read eventual warning / error messages, or the "encoding succesful" relieving msg....
. (annoying request, #3 of 999) and... an autoshutdown checkbox? (this is in evident and sharp contraddiction with the previous request, but you know how different perspectives make life beautiful!)

shouldn't you feel like.... thanks in any case!

bye

[atx]

[nordloewe]

i just found something. it's not abig deal but i think i should mention. the SELECT DIRECTORY dialogue-box (the one that pops up from the Audiences Directory button) doesn't seem to show folders that have the "system" attribute (S).

[Doom9]

a few more suggestions: priority settings.. using the default the real encoder pretty much monopolizes the cpu cycles making it very hard to run any other apps at the same time.
xml generation.. creating your own profile is not very straightforward.. it takes you a while to dig thru the documentation and some stuff isn't documented at all (for instance there's 4 audio profiles per profile.. not everybody gets that there are 2 for audio only and 2 for a/v files and then there's the distinction between music and voice audio mode).

[Latexxx]

I have new version with xml-creation ready, but I'm know at school and I can't post it now. Priority setting is not so easy as it seems, but you can use the priority settings in windows xp/2000 task managers processes page.

[atracus]

Great man,
I can tell you that I encoded 3 full-length movies using your GUI during the weekend, and that everything worked fine.

Were you also able to include one or 2 of my "annoying enhancements" (see prev. post)?

tia

[atx]

[Doom9]

I was under the impression that you could set a priority when launching a program for the commandline..

[Latexxx]

Atracus: Ideas have also bee implemented, but forget to write about those.

New version with simple xml generation available @ http://less.filetap.com/rm9/


Maybe somebody could tell me how to change process priorities???

[Doom9]

do a "start /?" in the commandline and you'll see how ;) when I did the last post I was on a solaris box and I couldn't test if I was right..

[Latexxx]

New version with process priority settings downloadable @ http://less.filetap.com/rm9/

[philippas]

Any idea on how to start and send a program to systray ?

[Doom9]

Not Found
The requested URL /~lhahne/rm9/rm9gui_0.1.0.31.zip was not found on this server.

[Latexxx]

Now it should work

[nordloewe]

Originally posted by Latexxx
New version with process priority settings downloadable @ http://less.filetap.com/rm9/
the home page opens, however the sub-directory RM9 doesn't.
nonetheless, the URL www.nic.fi/~lhahne/rm9/ works fine!

[Latexxx]

http://less.filetap.com/rm9/ just redirects you to http://www.nic.fi/~lhahne/rm9/

[teplun]

Could it be possible to add more input and output options, not only files. For live streaming there should be TV/video- and sound card as an input and hostname, portnumber and username/password for RealServer as an output. If you can make these improvements we don't need the coming "official" GUI any more.

[Latexxx]

I'll see what I can do....

[nordloewe]

Originally posted by Latexxx
[B]New version with simple xml generation available @ http://less.filetap.com/rm9/
the GUI is getting better and better evreyday. congrats!!! i have two more suggestions:

1. an option to save the encoding parameters to be used in future sessions -- just like VDub's "Save Processing Settings". or instead, the GUI could have an INI file that would store the settings used in the last session.

2 addition of "maxStartupLatency", "maxFrameRate" and "maxKeyFrameInterval" to the Audience Generator. those settings also have great impact to the movie quality and should not be left aside....

congrats for the great work, once again!

[Latexxx]

All right. New version again. Implements live streaming and server support, but don't kill me if they don't work, because I think that PIII 500 is too sloooow for capturing to rm9 from my ati aiw and I don't own a rm server. Get it from http://less.filetap.com/rm9/

nordloewe: I'll see what I can do.

[31 Flavas]

er... I get a 404 when I click on your rm9 link....

-Flavas

[Latexxx]

Originally posted by 31 Flavas
er... I get a 404 when I click on your rm9 link....

-Flavas

I don't get it. Try http://www.nic.fi/~lhahne/rm9/ instead of.

[Latexxx]

New version! (again...)
This time there is a option to save settings (but not the state of the checkboxes).

[Latexxx]

Again new version.
Added some options to xml generation.

[DaddyC]

hi,

i tried your gui and i have to stay it didnt work. it seems that the start.exe included in WinME does not have the commandline option /b and /normal (or /realtime....) for setting the process priority.

because of that im not able to use your gui, it would be nice if you could fix it.

thx

[Latexxx]

Do did done

[teplun]

Latexx, your encoder gui is very useful so could you make a final release of it which doesn't contain any typing errors: balck => black, livestreming => live streaming. And still one wish: could you find a better looking icon for the gui because the present one isn't any beauty.

[Latexxx]

There are some big winds blowing. Expect impossible ;-)

Maybe somebody could do a better icon?